Well, no, you didn't fix the bug. You collected a datum about the bug: it caused a variable to have a value that it should not have had. Now you know something

Well, no, you didn't fix the bug. You collected a datum about the bug: it caused a variable to have a value that it should not have had. Now you know something about it that you maybe didn't know before. When you say "Great! You fixed the bug, right?" it sounds like a paraphrase of a passage in my essay that I had some misgivings about when I wrote it. But I thought, surely nobody's going to think I really mean the problem is definitely solved? Surely, people will realize its a bit of hyperbole. Maybe not. Maybe I should have instead written it more soberly. Maybe I should have just said "Now you've collected a bit of data about the nature of the bug."